6 oz pour SA ToDoTC.com To Do in the Twin Cities Wine Class

6 Oz Pour Wine Class

Date: Aug 13, 2026

218 N Washington Ave

Minneapolis, MN 55401

Phone: (612) 338-5393

www.6ozpour.com

South American 6oz pour wine class

South America in 7 Glasses 8.13.2026
6 ounce pour South America and seven glasses four wine from Chile to Argentina one from Uruguay

The wines we will try tonight include:

Gillmore Mariposa País, Maule, Chile $18.99 - $15.19

No Es Pituko Sauvignon Blanc, Curico, Chile $18.99 - $15.19

Casa Silva Carmenere, Colchagua, Chile $25.99 - $20.79

Ana Maria Cumsille, Lomas Coloradas Cariñena, Itata, Chile $33.99 - $27.19

Familia Zuccardi Zuccardi Serie A Torrontés, Salta, Argentina $21.99 - $17.59

Mendel Malbec, Mendoza, Argentina $29.99 - $23.99

Bodega Garzón Tannat Reserva, Uruguay $24.99 - $19.99

Receive 20% off all wine and 25% off mix-and-match cases tonight after the event! Please reach out with any questions or comments to info@6ozpour.com!

Chile Wine Island is the size of Europe 300 miles wide and 3000 miles long wine region. The majority of the wine is in southern Chile

The King & Queen of Spain demanded every ship traveling to Soth America have a Mission Grape aboard. It was called the Mission Grape in US. The Grape plants were taken to Pais in Chile. In 1619 the Spanish took back Spain from the Moors, every ship to America’s had some grapevines.

Wine number two 1541 Peru had 200,000 hectares planted five times what Napa has today

400 years ago there was a land grab for grape growing areas.
Movi is a handmade way of making wine

The ring of fire is surrounds the Pacific ocean where a plate tectonics is found, and there are volcanoes. There’s also double mountain ranges around the entire rim

Plate tectonics have a thrush and pole mountains. Chile does not have temperature ranges like California low at night and high during the day.

Grape ribbons, alcohol, and sugar slowly rise acid slowly drops as the grape brightens if a seed is not ready to plant. The grape fruit is not flavorful.

Chili has made affordable lines wines for 500 years. Sav Blancs from Chile are not bitter.
In the 1830s there was a silver rush in northern Chile. Masny workers left the wineries to dig for Silver.

South America wine. The landed class goes to France in the 1830s to learn about wine.
In the 1830s a wine maker was brought to Chile to produce Bordeau varieties. He also quarantined new grapes in the region.

The number three grape Caramia France thought it was a lost Friday for 200 years and later found it growing in South America in the fall, that leaves turn red in Chile

1870s Fluxora Bug came into Europe, as Europe was starting to plant American varieties root stock. It killed 70 to 80% of all grapes. But Chile never got Fluxora, but they when they are replanting now they use American root stock anyway in Europe the plant roots. European do not have sap which kills flora like in United States

In 1835 a giant earthquake and Conception Chili left vineyards unattended in 1835. It was also a huge El Niño in 1835.

The degrees parallel of the Chilean wine region is 29° to 46° south

Chili has highest vineyards in the world double the height of European in the US there’s five companies that produce 75% of all the wine drink in Argentina there’s four is the United States.

There’s a new wine growing process in Argentina called Zucaren it matches the grapes with the variety of soil types to get the best results.

Northern Chile has a French influence over it.

Mendoza region has Carmen that would not take an American. Both Carmine and Malbec cannot be grafted to an American route it just doesn’t work. Malbec is known by 1000 different names in France

Around the world they plant five different grapes in grape regions to hedge against the weather early frost early kill on the buds stops the great production Malbec adds color but lack of finish and also stains teeth so if you’re taking pictures, don’t drink Malbec. Fluxera does not like sand and that’s very common in Chile in Uruguay and Argentina.